All Activity

Thank you Gerry. This was the first time I have seen a gleam in your eye when talking about a commitment to Texas. Not even our (football) savior Arch received the same look of the eye from you. 🥹

FIFA gets an A+ on their initial rankings prior to the World Cup beginning.

Claro que si. Buen punto.

Don't read too much into any of this IMO. As we've written, this is a multi-million dollar decision for a family. The young man is truly one of the top handful of players in the country.

I have a notebook full of 1970's pro football players that I have had since I was 15. I am now 68. I have no idea of the value of them. I know I have a Sonny Jurgensen card among them. Who knows. I prefer my vinyl record collection. I have all the great albums that everyone loves.

That is no rumor!

I saw that & hope they fix the distribution problem. I’ve had a “Timeless” subscription since day 1 & it is absolutely awful. I never get any hits but worse is there are always duplicates & triplets in every box of 5 packs. Plus the inserts always are dupes. Last month I got 3 inserts of the same Parker Livingstone card plus another was Trey Wisner 🤦🏽 I do like how you can now pick your sport. Just got my first softball box & that was a fun open.

Oh heck yeah! They built one a hour south from me in Missoula, Montana, great store for about anything you need, easy place to get Christmas shopping done 🤣

I don't think he has a Georgia agenda per-se and he claims to have not been a fan of them growing up, but he obviously has covered them closely as is far more knowledgeable about them than any other program. His co-host guys are straight up Georgia homers without hiding it whatsoever, however lol.

Scheels is awesome. We spend way too much money in there.

I bet we crossed paths at some point. Always get my fishing gear from that store. Good deals and they string your reels for free

Although he was not the best DB at a Texas in the 40s, to me he foreshadows DBU. Blake Gideon, Bill Bradley and Jerry Gray are the only Great Texas DB of whom I can remember who followed him into coaching at college or NFL levels. 🤘🏻🤘🏼🤘🤘🏽🤘🏾🤘🏿

Agree. They deserve it until someone knocks them off

Tom Landry was a football genius. He incorporated the shotgun formation into every down usage (the shotgun was probably created by a CFL coach named Frank Ivy but modernized and first used by 49’ers coach Red Hickey in the early 1960s). His defensive innovation, the 4-3 defense is still used by pretty much every team in America. More importantly, his usage of 4 DL and 7 DBs led to what is often referred to as simulated pressure today. The attached video illustrates that concept.

With Spears Jr. ... he is making a fair # in year one from what I hear. This wasn't a bargain recruitment for Texas. That was Austin Goosby who took half of what BYU was offering to be at Texas. But the KD/Nike deal has helped with basketball HS recruiting from an NIL standpoint

Does this somehow go back to Arch not taking as much as he could for NIL?

Registered, Bobby, and thanks! P

Another connection worth mentioning here is the status of Odysseus as the second greatest hero in Greek mythology after Achilles. Socrates argued in several Platonic dialogues that Odysseus was superior to Achilles and should be recognized as such by the Greeks. He based this argument on the contention that Odysseus was more "intelligent, skilled and worked harder" than Achilles. Sounds like the Jordan/Kobe stuff.

I should add that Odysseus means "enemy" in Greek, which was also a role that Kobe embraced.

We went to the Scheels at the Colony last night. It is truly a unique, insanely huge sports store.

I have more stuff for you @Jordan91. When my daughters were growing up during the 2000s, I'd wake them up at 6:00 AM to read classics in the mornings during the summer (Plato, Aristotle, Dante, Homer, Virgil, Herodotus, etc.), and then we'd watch the Lakers in the Finals at night. We were reading The Odyssey during June 2009. The day we read book 22, in which Odysseus kills the antagonist Antinous (which means "anti-mind" in Greek) by shooting him in the throat with an arrow, and follows it up by telling his 20 year old son Telemachus (which means power crossing over or moving to) not to celebrate because the fight isn't yet over yet, Kobe made his famous statement after taking a 2-0 lead over the Magic in the Finals ("What's there to be happy about? Job's not finished. Job finished? I don't think so."). I let them stay up late that night to watch the postgame stuff. My youngest daughter immediately made the connection between Odysseus and Kobe. Yesterday, she called me and said we need to go see the film The Odyssey next week when it's released and wear our Kobe jerseys. That's the power of admiring greatness when you grow up.

I live a couple stop lights from the new cedar park one…. For a “sports” store that building is insane and rumor is they’ll have a freaking Ferris wheel inside the damn place. Lol it looks bigger than the HeB Center which it’s right next to. gonna be cool to see that place when it opens that’s for sure.

Conor is done. What a disappointment.